Manhattan, the most destructive place in Hollywood movies, "Independence Day" in 1994, once turned this place into a sea of ​​​​flames and then razed it to the ground. In the past three years, another film has focused on this place. Samsung Columbia Pictures under Sony Entertainment Ye decided to place a monster from Japan in Manhattan to show the monster's terrifying power in the way that the world's financial center was severely damaged.

At this time, there was chaos near the Brooklyn Bridge, and the crew was filming nervously under the supervision of municipal personnel.

Da He Ren stood on the terrace of a nearby building, looking at the blond German director standing behind the camera, frowning a little.

"Michael, are you sure Director Emmerich won't screw up?" he asked beside.

The person standing on one side is Michael Ovitz, who has returned to the entertainment brokerage industry. After learning the painful lesson of Disney’s failure, Ovitz established an artist management company, and used his huge network of contacts and well-established Packaged service, after several months of hard work, got the big production project "Godzilla" from Samsung Columbia.

Michael Ovitz has returned to the familiar entertainment agency industry, and no one dares to underestimate him. Not only the Godzilla project, he also hired Martin Scorsese, one of the four major directors, from CAA, and the entire artist management company The rise in momentum in a short period of time is quite astonishing.

"Congratulations..." Michael Ovitz was as confident as ever, "I think you should have watched Roland's "Thunderbolt Eagle", "Reconstructed Warrior" and "Shock Cosmos" before, and it is not difficult to get his directing style. , this is a director who is also obsessed with special effects and big scenes!"

"If Duke Rosenberg can be invited, at least half of the film's success will be achieved!" Shinobu Oga still whispered.

Michael Ovitz did not refute, but agreed, "That's true. No one in Hollywood can compare to Duke Rosenberg in destroying a city in a film, but he has already rejected you! Hey, believe me, except for Duke Rosenberg, Roland Emmerich is definitely the best director in the world who is good at destroying the earth!"

Oga Shinobu is very clear.It is impossible to invite Duke, and although the first three films of Roland Emmerich are not considered big hits, compared with the investment, the profits are quite considerable. Michael Ovitz once assisted Sony Entertainment After winning Columbia Pictures, the executives of Sony Entertainment also trusted his vision and ability, so they packaged the project and handed it over to him.

Although Martin Scorsese invested in the artist management company.But Michael Ovitz is very clear that if the company wants to really rise in Hollywood, it must have a successful operation project. It took him nearly three months in the first half of the year to get this project.What's more, Stan Winston, a top Hollywood model master who joined the digital field, was invited to design and produce Godzilla special effects.

Even if the artist management company does not actually get much commission, it must contribute to the success of this project.

"Are you sure the film will be able to catch up with next year's summer vacation?" Dahe Ren asked again.

"I have communicated with Roland." Michael Ovitz said confidently, "He will complete all the production of the film by April at the latest, and Sony Entertainment can fully mobilize media resources. Start promoting the film."

He then emphasized, "Great congratulations. Why has Duke Rosenberg been so successful in recent years? Especially the niche genre of "Chicago", why can it be so popular? Because under his promotion, Warner Bros. pays special attention to publicity. The production cost of "Chicago" is only 2500 million U.S. dollars. But it invested 1500 million U.S. dollars in publicity and distribution costs! What about other films in the same period? Many films with an investment of 5000 million U.S. dollars did not have such high publicity and distribution Budget!"

Dahe Ren nodded lightly. In fact, the publicity and distribution costs of the films released this summer are significantly higher than before.

"If Duke Rosenberg is a successful director when he picks up the camera," Michael Ovitz continued, "then he is definitely a standard businessman when he puts down the camera. It's lower than 90.00% of directors in the world, and his skin is definitely thicker than those vampires on Wall Street!"

"So, Sony must come up with more effective plans in publicity!" He emphasized.

After saying this, Michael Ovitz turned his head to look in the direction of the Empire State Building. The project of CAA, his former empire and now a strong competitor in the entertainment brokerage industry, was filmed there.

Judging from the announced release date, the other party's film is also scheduled to be released in May, two weeks earlier than "Godzilla".

According to the general situation, it is speculated that there will not be too much competition between the two parties after a weekend, but now it seems that other films are avoiding these two super-big productions, staggering the weekends in between, and instead get together to grab the fallen soldiers. For the anniversary schedule, perhaps we should think of some ways to curb the overheated projects packaged by CAA, so as not to impact "Godzilla"!

Although the person in charge of that project was Martin Bob, his old friend and right-hand man from the past, none of this could prevent the existence of competition.

Presumably, many people in Hollywood do not want the project of the other party to succeed. The reason is too simple. It is a project of DreamWorks. Everyone can see the ambition of the Big Three of DreamWorks, but the traditional forces in Hollywood will definitely not sit back and watch the rise of DreamWorks. As has happened several times in history, they will never tolerate a new company coming in and grabbing the biggest piece of cake.

Even DreamWorks has the most popular director in Hollywood, Steven Spielberg.

At this time, Spielberg and Martin Bob stood on the viewing platform of the Empire State Building, watching the female director Mimi Ryder nervously deploying the crew.

Although he doesn't like Martin Bob, Spielberg doesn't show anything on his face. As a veteran who has worked hard in Hollywood for many years, he certainly understands the simplest truth of not mixing personal likes and dislikes into business.

Martin Bob took a look at Spielberg. DreamWorks' film plan did not start smoothly. The first film "Broken Lock and Fury" ended in failure. "The commercial revenue is far below expectations, and Spielberg's big-selling film "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" this year has little contact with DreamWorks. The ambitions of the three giants have encountered serious setbacks just at the beginning frustration.

If it weren't for these setbacks, he wouldn't have gone through a lot of work and won "Clash of Heaven and Earth" as a packaged project.

Although he has encountered some troubles in CAA, no one can ignore the powerful strength of CAA in the industry, nor can he ignore the resources that he, the CAA controller, can deploy.

Martin Bob believes that with Spielberg himself as the producer and his full assistance, the film is still the most popular subject of sci-fi destruction, and the chances of success are infinite.

"My original idea..." Spielberg suddenly said, "I wanted Duke to direct the film, but unfortunately he rejected both me and George..."

"what a shame!"

Unlike the rumored pawns of CAA, Spielberg didn't care about Martin Bob's face at all. He obviously just regarded him as a service person, and said to himself, "If Duke joins, "Clash of Heaven and Earth" "At least there will be a [-]% chance of a big hit."

Not only did Martin Bob not refute Spielberg's words, but he hurriedly nodded in agreement, "After Duke Rosenberg's "Independence Day", the theme of how to destroy the earth has become a guarantee for the success of major Hollywood productions. one."

He didn't like Duke, but he had to admit it in his heart.

There is nothing wrong with acknowledging this. Martin Bob is obviously flattering Spielberg. Now he lacks heavyweight clients. Like Michael Ovitz, he is willing to dance ass up and dance to make the other party happy.

Thinking of Michael Ovitz, Martin Bob not only looked over to the Brooklyn Bridge, Michael Ovitz came back and poached Martin Scorsese from CAA at lightning speed, leaving him in disgrace, Even became Eno Martin and Pat Kingsley new grounds for attack.

From the moment Michael Ovitz reached out to CAA, his interests were touched, and the previous relationship between the two parties has disappeared. Maybe there may be improvement in the future, but at this stage they can only be competitors!

Moreover, it is not without benefits to establish such a strong competitor for CAA. It can completely consolidate his position and allow the centrists within the company to temporarily unite to deal with external enemies, even if this enemy is the former CAA tycoon!

External enemies are often the best way to ease internal conflicts.

Since Michael Ovitz left office, there have been voices within CAA who have questioned his ability. Now that the two packaged projects can start to directly collide tomorrow in the summer file, in Martin Bob’s view, this may not be a proof of himself Chances are, if "Clash of Heaven and Earth" wins over "Godzilla" in terms of box office, word-of-mouth and commercial performance, it can also prove his ability from the side, and once he wins, he can even win more people's support for him.

Why do some shareholders support Eno? Martin?It is nothing more than thinking that CAA can bring them more benefits under his leadership. As long as he proves that he can do better, Eno Martin's camp will split.

Martin Bob is not as ambitious as Michael Ovitz. After being hyped and praised by the gossip media, he really thinks he is the emperor behind the scenes in Hollywood. What he wants to do most is to completely control CAA, and then mobilize the power he can mobilize. Forcefully suppress the director who has made him lose face countless times.

Of course, if the opponent is willing to bow his head and throw himself under his flag, he will welcome him with his hands up. (to be continued~^~)

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